DENDROLOGY AND SOCIETY
PLANT CLASSIFICATION
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Question
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Miss Kearns’s class takes a nature hike. How do the students identify a fern plant?
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Look for petals and flowers
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Look for cones that grow along branches
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Look for brown spores underneath the leaves
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Look for fuzzy patches that grow near the ground
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Similar to flowering plants, ferns have roots, stems and leaves. However, unlike flowering plants, ferns do not have flowers or seeds; instead, they usually reproduce sexually by tiny spores or sometimes can reproduce vegetatively, as exemplified by the walking fern.
Detailed explanation-2: -Fronds that have sporangia are called fertile fronds. In the vast majority of ferns, the sporangia are found in clusters (called sori). These are the brown, black or orange patches that you see on the underside of fronds.
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